It’s on: College teams’ video throwdown goes viral

Given that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, it follows that some Dallas college students have flattered the heck out of some Boston college students in a YouTube throwdown that has gone viral.

The (SMU women’s rowing) team was on its way to the airport in Knoxville, Tenn., after the Conference USA championships in Oak Ridge, according to Emily McCombs, who was the director and filmed it.

The video was posted to YouTube with the quote: “Ball’s in your court, Harvard baseball.”

“We were listening to a song, and one girl said “let’s do this Harvard baseball style!” and she started pounding her fists on the ceiling. Then our trainer said ‘if you really want to make something, you should lay down and do that with your feet in the air!’” McCombs said.

Although this exchange has spread like wildfire, they weren’t the first, and many more are coming out, according to TIME.com:

Plenty of other college teams have joined in on the Carly Rae Jepsen action. The University of Connecticut women’s rowing team put out their own video, and so did UConn’s women’s basketball team — who are seen frolicking through a supermarket, wearing beehive wigs, doing the worm on the court, and dancing with their pants down.

The Harvard team isn’t the first college sports team to have covered the song, either. Back in March, the Duke women’s lacrosse team lip-synced to the song in a video depicting the traveling life of a college athlete. Kean University women’s lacrosse team posted a video featuring the team on their spring break trip in Virginia, and a couple players from the Syracuse University basketball team put up their own video. It must make the long bus rides, hotel visits, and long training days a lot more entertaining.